Don't erase thissssss

( Left in the Atheneum lobby in the dead of night, and furthermore the dead of a night when John is on duty, and on rounds )

Watts and I are going abroad a few days, I don't think we have anything planned but if we do, and we miss it, I'm sorry. There's been a Something has happened.

I'm not sure whose bright idea it was to have high school reunions, but they deserve to be pummeled in the head for it. And you'd think that with my sister's two years ago, I would be prepared for one; but I was hoping very much that they'd fall miserably out of fashion in those twenty-four months.

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As some of you might have intuited by my fellow Byron's crafty notes, our first annual Europe Day party will be falling on the 2nd of May, as opposed to the more traditional 7th of May; we're celebrating the spirit of Europe more than the Schumann declaration per se, anyway. If it's your tendency, you are more than ( Read more... )

I think I need a new laptop, or at least I will before the summer's out. I'm fine with technology, I like to think I'm coasting nicely on the curve, but I hate buying electronics, and I hate breaking in something new. Plus, all that transferring music, and I have roughly a National Archives worth of .pdf scans to deal with--it's a pain ( Read more... )

Everybody keep May 9th open. I'll grant that Europe Day isn't New Years, but my birthday wasn't New Years either, and that seemed to go over festively all right. We're diversifying.

We're also willing to violate the lease.

McMafia by Mischa Glenny is an extremely interesting book

There's this new restaurant that opened

According to the Art Loss Register, there are 79 missing or stolen works by Degas, 52 by Cézanne, and 574 by Picasso. Just think about okay, no stolen art is not a good opener

Have you ever had one of those days where you can't explain anythingI ( Read more... )

Well. I received another empty envelope from the student affairs office; the mystery continues.

Someone found another early Picasso, tucked on some English estate. He was about twenty when he painted it. These days it's risky layering too much praise on the man--people will look at you like you're stupid, I've seen it happen--but I think it has ( Read more... )

I didn’t realize that Arthur C. Clarke had passed. He used to be one of my favorite authors, in middle school; anyone who hasn’t read "The Nine Billion Names of God" should look it up. I imagine it’s on the internet somewhere. More famously, he was the one who suggested that ( Read more... )